Maverick Effect

He sat under the shade of a willow tree, just looking around.  He smiled, but it was a sad smile.  Everyone was out there enjoying themselves, enjoying being around each other.  He wanted so much to join them, to be one of the group.  Yet he couldn't.  He was the outsider...

Maverick slipped on his reverands coat.  It was getting toward fall, and even though it was the desert, it still got cold during this time.  All the girls knew that Maverick hated being cold.  He reached his hand out and Angie extended the case toward him.  Maverick took the R...

Maverick was going home.  The jet was flying them all the way from his summer house near Kyoto, Japan to his hometown in southwest Texas.  The girls had all cleared their schedules, both Natalie and Jessica at the expense of leaving some very huffy publists behind.  They all n...

THUD! THUD! SLAM!   Maverick moved across the floor of his rage room.  It looked similar to a dojo, but had several "opponents" around the room.  They ranged from a simple punching bag, to a carbon composite of a man, to a stone pillar.  Maverick stood at the "man" going throu...

  Laughter floated through the room.  A movie played in the background, but it was just white noise.  Maverick sat on the floor of his living room.  Around the room, sitting around him were Lily, Angie, Mari, Jessica, and Natalie.  They talked of many different things.&nb...

  Maverick laid on the floor of the living room.  The carpets were thick and plush, being almost as comfortable as lying on a couch.  Jessica and Natalie laid down with him.  He lay looking at the ceiling, collecting his thoughts.  Jessica and Natalie were both used to th...

They walked slowly and softly through the forest.  The group stopped often to listen and look around.  Blaze spent his time between perching on the shoulder of the Scarecrow or flying off for long periods of time then coming back to report to Joseph.  As they moved farther into the...

Maverick was sitting with his back against a tall willow tree.  His legs were stretched out in front of him.  Jessica sat against the tree next to him and Natalie was lying down with her head resting on Maverick's lap.   "Maverick?" Natalie spoke, rolling her eyes up to look at him...

Maverick stretched slowly before settling himself on the bed.  Jessica and Natalie snuggled back into his arms.  He lay with his eyes closed for awhile, long enough for both girls to wonder if he had fallen asleep.  Jessica was about to tap him when he spoke, slightly startling bot...

  "He goes off to college.  Away from the hell hole he called his home.  Away from everyone and everything that knew him as he was.  He even looked a bit better.  The braces were gone, he's gotten contact lenses by now, and the acne has recessed some.  He still dress...